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...went the steeple, gargoyles and all, until a local paper reported the startling innovations. Then everyone awoke in alarm. "A sculptor who lets himself be inspired by the pitiful figure of Donald Duck is to be pitied himself," fumed the Rev. G. C. Foeken, one of the preachers at Eusebius Church, who had not heard about the lofty figures until the papers arrived. The Netherlands Christian Women's Association of Arnhem, 800 strong, demanded that town officials defend the "dignity of the steeple...
...replied Verlaan. He suggested something "eternal"-comic strip characters, perhaps. The delighted sculptor went off to work, within three months hacked out 23 stone figures copied from the cartoons of Hollywood's Walt Disney and from a popular Dutch cartoonist named Maarten Toonder. Among his figures were Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, the wisest of the Three Little Pigs, and a Big (six feet tall) Bad Wolf...
...protest had arrived from Disney, and Arnhem's burgomaster thought the affair more funny than vulgar. go right ahead, he told Verlaan after trudging topside for a look. That was just enough to spur Sculptor Vreeling on to greater artistic heights. Not far from Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, Vreeling is happily at work carving another stone figure: a dragon peeping out from a mushroom-shaped cloud. The dragon's face is unmistakably that of the enraged Pastor Foeken...
...brass, says Randall, he flies on executive airplanes, misses the conversation of a random seat mate. Even his recreation is isolated: "As chairman, his golf dates are rare, are always arranged in advance by his secretary, and the foursome is invariably selected from not over six possibilities. If duck shooting is his sport, he will be found at a small private club where no uncouth voice is heard; if it is fishing the lodge will be remote and the waters privately stocked and patrolled...
Jagan tried to duck the question, but Committee Chairman Sir Henry Wynn Parry insisted on an answer. "If he continues to be silent on the issue," said Parry, "the commission will be forced to take note that the witness has avoided answering this vital question." Enraged, Jagan shouted: "I believe the tenets of Communism to mean 'from each according to his ability and to each according to his need.' And I believe that represents the Communist belief and I accept it." Still angry, he went on to say that he admired Fidel Castro as "the greatest liberator...